Heated Cocktails

Preparation Style

Whether you're looking for the best Irish Coffee recipe or a traditional Hot Toddy, these piping-hot cocktails are just what you need when the temperature starts to drop. Check out these warmers and start mixing.

Spiced Apple Cider

Spiced Apple Cider

The heated combination of fresh apple cider and winter’s best-loved spices produces a drink that encapsulates fall’s favorite flavors in one glass.

Wassail cocktail

This traditional rich, spiced brown-ale-and-oloroso-sherry drink, served warm, is perfect for pleasing a holiday crowd.

Abbey Toddy

This Hot Toddy combines Benedictine and high-proof bourbon for a rich and flavorful rendition of the classic heated drink.

4 Warming Crock-Pot Cocktail Recipes to Try at Home

Irish Coffee Cocktail in glass mug next to a jar of cream

A pair of hands pour a steaming ladleful of mulled wine into a clear glass mug. The background with a crock pot full of mulled wine is just out of focus.

Hit Me Baby One More Glühwein

Hey, Gourdgeous cocktail

Hey, Gourdgeous

A glass mug holds a lush, golden-brown serving of Hot Buttered Rum. Its pale surface is flecked with nutmeg, and a cinnamon stick rests across the mouth of the mug. The background is pale blue, and the surface a light gray.

Hot Buttered Rum

hot buttered rum batter in a sealed mason jar

Hot Buttered Rum Batter

Hot Toddy cocktail in a glass mug with lemon wheel and cloves

Irish Coffee: 5 Delicious Ways to Reconsider the Famed Cocktail

A clear glass cocktail mug filled with light brown liquid and garnished with a lemon twist; a metal pitcher with flames coming from within it sits to the left of the mug.

tom and jerry cocktail in a white coffee mug

A top down view of a white mug shows a light brown drink garnished with a thin peel of orange. The background is reflective black.

Curiosity Killed the Cat, You Know

boozy hot chocolate cocktail in a glass mug with mini marshmallows

Boozy Hot Chocolate

Golden Purl cocktail

A tall glass coffee mug rests on a wooden table. The mug hold dark black coffee with a thick layer of white foam dusted with nutmeg.

The Dead Rabbit Irish Coffee

two I Left My Heart in Jalisco cocktails, served in coffee mugs next to conversation hearts

I Left My Heart in Jalisco

Café Correcto con Coco

The Lookout cocktail in a clear mug, topped with Chinese five-spice

Last-Minute Mulled Wine

Emerald Isle of the Caribbean

Emerald Isle of the Caribbean

Autumn Wassail in a tall, thin toddy glass against a dark, slate-grey backdrop. A fan of three apple slices on a fancy skewer is the garnish.

A clear glass mug filled just over halfway with a deep amber-colored hot cocktail

Hot Caramel Buttered Rum

Hot Caramel Buttered Rum

A handled, clear glass mug is branded with an emblem that reads “Highlands NYC Est. 2007.” The mug sits on a marble table and is filled with a pale golden drink. It’s garnished with a cinnamon stick and a clove-studded lemon wheel.

Milk & Honey cocktail

A clear glass mug with a tapered middle and a glass handle sits on a marble surface. It’s filled with a golden beverage and small chunks of apple, and is dusted with nutmeg.

Heated Affair cocktail with white frothy head in an Irish coffee mug, garnished with cinnamon stick and fresh nutmeg

Francophile cocktail

Glogg cocktail

hand places dried apple garnish on the Hot Apple Pie cocktail, served in an Irish Coffee glass with a cinnamon stick

A small glass bottle with a flip top cap rests on a light blue backdrop. The bottle is filled with a dark brown syrup.

Red Beans & Rice Orgeat

A small mug shaped like a garden gnome is filled with a drink topped with whipped cream and garnished with two Pocky sticks and a tree ornament shaped like a golden gift box.

Bring Me Back Something French

A Hot Toddy mugs rests on a slatted wooden table. It’s filled with a golden drink, a cinnamon stick floats at its base, and it is garnished with a lemon wheel.

Audrey Saunders' Tom & Jerry

A highball glass rests on a wooden coaster against a dark blue surface. The glass is filled with ice and a light brown highball, and is topped with a star anise. A few apples are strewn on the blue surface, out of focus.

Rumplesnuggler cocktail in Irish Coffee mug topped with whipped cream

Jeffrey Morgenthaler's Hot Toddy

Jeffrey Morgenthaler’s Hot Toddy

Gran Rosta Coffee cocktail in an Irish Coffee mug with whipped cream topping, served next to orange-and-white towel

Gran Rosta Coffee

Darth Mauled Pomegranate Cider

Hot Buttered Fun cocktail in an Irish Coffee mug with a spoon in the glass

Hot Buttered Fun

Fort Defiance Irish Coffee

Harvest Time cocktail

Rich Coffee cocktail with a white foamy head served in a short-stemmed glass

Chicken Soup Hot Toddy

hands grating nutmeg over two pumpkin spiced latte cocktails

Pumpkin Spiced Latte

A glass tea mug with a curved handle rests on a worn leather book. The drink within is dark orange with a floating lemon wheel.

A glass mug with a handle and stem sits on a wooden surface. It’s filled with an opaque golden drink and garnished with a star anise.

Sweet & Sour Chicken Toddy

An elegant coupe holds a dark brown cocktail. It’s garnished with a single baby back rib bone, and stands on a surface of concentric rings.

Buddy’s Busy cocktail in a stemmed glass with a topper of fresh whipped cream and nutmeg

Duck Hunt cocktail in a rocks glass, garnished with a rosemary sprig, juniper berries and caraway seeds

Mama I'm Coming Home cocktail in a clear Irish coffee mug, garnished with a skewered piece of caramel candy

Mama, I’m Coming Home

Chicken & Apple Wassail cocktail in a coupe glass on a black surface

Chicken & Apple Wassail

Moment of Clarity

Maple syrup is poured into one of three frothy Hot Butter(nut) Rum cocktails, each served in a toddy glass with handle

Hot Butter(nut) Rum

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